Solar Cooker dish telescope and wooden mount as of 2/11/2024
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Now found way to mount cantenna at focal point. Also, wooden mount now painted. Andy
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Building wooden mount for Solar Cooker Dish Radio Telescope 27/10/2024
I am building a second wooden mount, this time for Solar Cooker Dish rather than Ptarmigan Array – but based on similar design to one I used for Ptarmigan Array.…
New Chinese Cavity Filter covering hydrogen line 1400-1427 MHz
I have just taken delivery of a new hydrogen cavity filter from China. Click below to read cavity filter specifications. https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WT-A9940-Q08-1-2.pdf Click below to read the test report on this…
First Light new 1400-1427 MHz (covering Hydrogen Line) Cavity Filter from China 15-16/10/2024
Analysis of Ptarmigan Array data 10-15/10/2024, using Nooelec SAWBird H1 LNA only: Analysis of Ptarmigan Array data 15-16/10/2024, using Nooelec SAWBird H1 LNA & also Cavity Filter, at same elevation…
Radio signal of aurora during major auroral (Northern Lights) UK display midnight 10-11/10/2024
The auroral trace is this purple strip to left of the meteor on the right hand side plot – this is not a carrier as this would appear on exactly…
Solar Cooker Dish Radio Telescope data analysis up to 8/10/2024, 2pm.
I analysed the data collected by ezCol in the ezRA software suite (Ted Cline) today – after around 1 week of data collection using this new instrument, I have 24…
Processing first light data from solar cooker radio telescope 6/10/2024
Hot off the press! – only 2 elevation points – data from this week.
Next stage 1.5m solar cooker radio dish 3/10/2024
Some cheap aluminium + zinc spray paint purchased from Lidl, UK, and using my cantenna cut for hydrogen as feedhorn.
Erecting the 150cm (1.5m) Solar Cooker Dish at LRO, and calculating its focal length 28/9/2024
Here is a photo of the dish erected at LRO: Using Parabola Calculator 2 program (Parabola Calculator version 2.0 (tripod.com) https://mscir.tripod.com/parabola/), the dimensions and focal length of my solar cooker…
Assembling solar cooker dish from ebay
First part of assembly process – it is quite big! (1.5m) Andy